2019 English Channel Piper PA-46 crash

When

21 Jan 2019

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

49.82° N, 2.71° W

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

1

2019 aviation accident in the English Channel

On 21 January 2019, a Piper PA-46 Malibu light aircraft transporting Argentine football player Emiliano Sala crashed in the English Channel off Alderney in the Channel Islands. It had been travelling from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, Wales, where Sala was due to begin his career with Cardiff City.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu crash: An aircraft carrying newly-signed Cardiff City F.C. footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson en route from Nantes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le Piper PA-46 Malibu transportant le footballeur argentin Emiliano Sala et son pilote David Ibbotson s’abîme dans la Manche”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “El futbolista argentino Emiliano Sala y un piloto de aviación desaparecieron en el Canal de la Mancha”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page